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Katrīna Dūka is a theatre-maker, researcher, and creative producer working with non-professionals, communities, and participatory practices. She’s been researching queerness in a Post-Soviet landscape and creating work that offers intimate and delicate encounters with the Other. She graduated from ArtEZ University of the Arts (NL) with an MA in Performance Practices (2022). Her work has been presented at the International Festival of Contemporary theatre “Homo Novus”, Ģertrūdes ielas Theatre, and Dirty Deal Teatro, and she performs in drag with the Baltic Drag King collective.
Liisa Saaremäel is a performance artist from Tallinn, Estonia. Her works often exit conventional performance spaces and ways of creating to explore in-between areas in performing arts. Site-specificity and community-based approach characterize her process design which is also visible in her artistic outcome. In her practice she seeks ways to blur the lines between real and staged, reality and fiction.
Her recent works include concert-performance “SCREAM BOX” (Kanuti Guildi SAAL, 2023, nomination of Estonian Theatre Awards) and Estonian Pavilion “Home Stage” in Venice architecture biennale 2023 (with Keithy Kuuspu) and site-specific performance “Tiny Home Production presents: LARGER-THAN-LIFE” (2021, laureate of Estonian Theatre Awards). www.liisasaaremael.ee
Keithy Kuuspu (1994) is a performance and dance artist from Tallinn, Estonia. In her practice, she works with mundane structures and with the influences that society has on individuals, often through ironical and naive perspective. She is particularly interested in manipulating with time and space, slowing down oneself and processes before and after the result. Connecting visual and performance art and search for connections between the body and material has an important place in her creation.
Last plays she directed were PAUS ISTU MINE (STL, 2023, nomination of Estonian Theatre Awards), Estonian Pavilion “Home Stage” in Venice architecture biennale 2023 (with Liisa Saaremäel), False Falling (STL, 2021, nomination of Estonian Theatre Awards) and Body Slam (with Liisa Saaremäel, 2022). Recently she performed in Tiit Ojasoo & Ene-Liis Semper performance “72 days”, in Jarkko Partanen & Anni Klein “Fluids” (WAUHAUS, STL) and in Laura Cemin & Bianca Hisse “How the Land Lies”. In 2022 she received Cristal Shoe Award in Estonian Theatre Awards, which is given to two young performing artists for their first significant stage works.
She has graduated from Tallinn University Baltic Film, Media and Arts school in choreography (BA) and Contemporary Physical Performance Making (CPPM) at the Estonian Academy of Music and Theatre (MA). From 2021, she is studying ceramics (MA) at the Estonian Academy of Arts.
